Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House Monday were caused by a dead-end main on Holyoke Street leaking through the wall of the cellar it was reported today. Up to early yesterday morning workmen of the Cambridge Gas Company were drilling and shopping the street in front of the Cambridge Athletic Building in an effort to remedy the hazard. There is no gas piped into Lowell...
...only lead to resentment from the student, who goes through with his brush with the law determined to "get away with it" next time, rather than cooperate for the benefit of the whole community. Students should be arrested for violations, just like anybody else, but the law's effort should be to get them to do better next time...
...dark-haired wife, Elsie, whom he met while both were studying at Manhattan's Art Students' League. Flat canvas has always been a strait-jacket to Artist Blickenderfer. Says he: "I theorize that the phenomenon popularly termed 'distortion' in modern art is possibly an effort to compensate for the unnatural flatness. . . . Today, of course, as in any language, the idiom of distortion is used as a hand-down, its source and usage being unknown and unanalyzed. . . . Alas, too, too many artists are mere screwballs intellectually...
...Stetson admits that these chains of cause & effect are long and dubiously linked, and that the effort to match sunspot curves with indices of human activity -without taking into consideration hundreds of other factors-must necessarily be far from conclusive. But he feels that the evidence for sunspot influence is too good and too stimulating to be thrown out of court. "Definite investigations," he concludes, "should ultimately make it possible to substantiate or amend these statements. Some of them doubtless will be amended. I cannot but believe that accumulating evidence will show many of them valid. Ratification rests...
...Eitingon and Bernstein received shipments of furs worth $800,000 from Pellimpex, were aided by Balkan in selling them. Pouncing on the deal last May the boycott council declared that it was "one of the most carefully planned and seemingly foolproof devices yet evolved by the Nazis in an effort to improve their foreign exchange position. ... Its existence was discovered by the Joint Boycott Council's European agents who were long puzzled by the substantial savings effected by American importers in the purchase of Rumanian fur;. The scheme as it revealed itself follows: American importers pay for their furs...